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12 hours of class?? I am certainly very jealous! Engineering here is 30 hours per week during the year and I'm currently working full time, so practicing time is currently very rare.

I'm working on that Liszt Sonata, as well as keeping Gretchen am Spinnrade, Kapustin's op. 40 no.2, and Liszt's 6th Hungarian Rhapsody fresh. I'm also bringing back the Heroic Polonaise to record for my friend's birthday and I need to start learning these Scriabin Preludes...

Do anybody else find the Recapitulation (4rth movement) of the Liszt Sonata easier than the 2nd? I'm having a lot more trouble with the quick parts in the 2nd movement, but the last movement is feeling much more "pianistic" and secure under the fingers.

I worked on an accompaniment for Beethoven's 8th Violin Sonata and the Meditation for Thais for about like two minutes (even though the first rehearsal is tomorrow teheee) and that's it!!! I was so bored with practicing today...

That is only for 2 classes condensed from 4 months into one in a summer session... It was a little different during the year..

Yeah, I would imagine. Summer school is tough! Hopefully you'll get back to practice soon...and I can start asking questions about the Liszt sonata

I worked more on the Saint-Saens Etude en forme de valse... I think after a lot of practice and time, I'll get it! Such a guilty pleasure...

Also, Ravel Concerto in G first movement (upcoming competition) and Schubert Impromptu Op. 142 No. 2.

Here is some progress I've made on Saint-Saens Etude so far:



I've also worked out the first two pages. I think I'll actually be able to make good work of this piece! (Some day.)

Wow OSK, you're getting pretty darn good!
I've only glanced in on your live streaming practice sessions a few times but I never saw you really play anything beyond a few snippets that you were working on.
(Also it's freaky to see you from the other side for a change).

Thanks! By the way, you can't see well from that angle, but I'm wearing an Orange Crush soda shirt.

I figured that since the first few times I saw you practising you had that shirt on.

A coupple of days ago I finished studying La campanella! Now It's practise practise and more practise. I allso work on Beethoven sonata 27, and Bach C-minor prelude, and alittle on Liszt Liebestod from Tristan & Isolde. Somebody have som good tips on the tremolos in thirds in bar 13 and 14?

I thought the same about these Scriabin Preludes. Just wanted to use your quotation, to mention that I currently finished the Prelude op.8 no.12!! Just proud of it!
In fact my teacher wanted me to play "Liebestraum" from Liszt(I´ve to admit that I was to lazy to learn the ending part). So I played this Scriabin Etude from which he disadvised me. Sometimes I made small stops, so that my brain could catch up to the following parts. Fortunately he was quite satisfied!

But I wasn´t amused when he suggested me to try a Sonata from Scriabin...er no...ehk...
my musical understanding needs more time yet!

Beethoven Pathetique Sonata, Saint-Saens Etude. Need to work on Mozart concerto again...

I am going through Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words right now (inspired by another thread).

I'm working on Haydn's Piano Sonata no. 62, Scarlatti's Sonata in G K125, and Prokofiev's 2nd sonata... I'm also starting to dabble again in the Chopin PC1 and the cadenza of the Beethoven 3....

!!!!!!!!! i practiced the mendelssohn too! except i worked on the andante-mostly made sure the pedal is clean, nothing is mushy and that the lines sing

Worked on Ravel Concerto in G, first movement, for an upcoming concerto competition. I feel like I have new and very improved ears coming back to this piece I learned a year ago, and although I will continue to go through with this competition (I feel it would be cowardly to back out), there are some passages (the slow ones) that I just do NOT understand and cannot even hear in my head 100% exactly how they can go. I'm sure I'll give a "pretty good" performance... all the notes will be there no problem, the fast parts will be exciting (I feel those parts pretty darn well if I do say so myself!) and the trills and arpeggios in the trills will be all shimmery and exciting, but OVERALL there will be something missing. Something overtop all of these aspects of playing the piano. I feel true depth, mastery, profundity, and MUSIC at all level will be missing...

Oh well. I'm still young, it's all a part of the learning process, and I'll do better with the next pieces I learn. Until then, back to the keyboard to practice!

Since this thread is at the top of the list now: I've been playing the Scherzo which I just got assigned. Its tremendously fun trying to figure out the voicing of the opening ff chords, fingering of the left hand legato section, etc.

Mozart Fantasia in C minor, K. 396 (NOT the later one)
Bach WTC II Prelude & Fugue in E minor - so hard and so much fun.

Weren't you doing E major Book II a while back? That one is one of my favorites of the 48. E minor Book II I'm more lukewarm on. (Though if I were to work it up, I might come to love it.)

For me, it's pretty much all Schumann Davidsbundlertanze all the time. I'm really going to get all 18 worked up. Today it was #4 from Book II, which has a glorious coda.

-J

E major is one of the best for sure. I love the ethereal serenity. I love the E minor after it too because it's everything the E major isn't. The prelude is the toughest two-part invention I've ever seen, but it's the fugue that just feels so good under the hands when you get it down.